Stoolball: Historic bat sport - Discover a forgotten game with Oly Bennet

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Stoolball: Historic bat sport - Discover a forgotten game with Oly Bennet

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Join host Oly Bennett as she uncovers Stoolball, the gloriously bizarre 500-year-old bat-and-ball game and wild ancestor of cricket and baseball. From medieval milkmaids to Shakespeare's bawdy jokes and a rogue officer with frying pans at Lord's Cricket Ground, discover flirting, controversy, and history's greatest untold athletic origin story.

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